Prominent white supremacist David Duke said Monday that it benefits Adolf Hitler when Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump gets compared to him.
“They might be rehabilitating that fellow with the mustache back there in Germany, because I saw a commercial against Donald Trump, a really vicious commercial,” Duke said on his radio program in comments that were first flagged by Right Wing Watch.
Duke said the commercial compared Trump’s commitment to “making America great again” to Hitler’s efforts “preserving Germany and making Germany great again and free again and not beholden to these Communists on one side.”
Duke may have been referring to an ad released by a group called Citizens Super PAC that compared Trump to Hitler. The ad overlaid audio clips of each of them speaking, including Trump saying that the country “doesn’t win anymore,” Hitler referring to “the decline of our nationhood” and both of them critiquing “negotiators” and “deals.”
“I saw that this morning and I was amazed by that commercial,” Duke continued. “It was a commercial against Trump but I don’t think it’s having the effect that they want it to have.”
